May 12, 2021
Bad Homburg, Germany
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Fresenius Medical Care, the world’s leading provider of products and services for people with chronic kidney failure, has opened a new technology center for developing dialysis machines at its Schweinfurt, Germany production and development site. About 220 employees from different departments will work together on a project basis in the new 7,500-square-meter (81,000-square-foot) building, in which the company has invested about €22 million.
Due to the pandemic, the opening ceremony was a purely digital event. The online conference included a video tour through the building. In addition, employees presented their future workstations in the technical, laboratory and testing areas, as well as offices, break spaces and conference rooms.
“As much as virtual cooperation from home office works well: In combination with virtual networking, person-to-person interactions on site are irreplaceable, and so I am really looking forward to the cooperation in our new technology center,” said Johann Brede, Project Director of the technology center. “With short and direct access ways and corridors, and an open structure, the entire building is designed for networking and exchanges between different disciplines and teams. This way, we can develop for our patients even better dialysis machines that will also cost less.”
Construction of the five-floor building, which required some 5,700 cubic meters of concrete and 900 tons of steel, took three years. The technology center is built to modern environmental standards and includes, among other features, a “green roof.”
The plant in Schweinfurt, which was established in 1979, is Fresenius Medical Care’s largest development and production facility for dialysis machines and other medical devices. The company now employs more than 1,200 people in the city in northern Bavaria, about 120 kilometers (75 miles) east of Frankfurt. About a third of them work in research and development.
Dialysis machines are among the most important products for treating chronic kidney disease. During treatment, the dialysis machine pumps the patient’s blood through bloodlines, monitors its circulation through the dialyzer, and adds anti-coagulants. Treatments are generally carried out three times weekly, and take between three and six hours each.
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Fresenius today successfully placed bonds with an aggregate volume of €1.5 billion across three tranches:
- €500 million bonds with a maturity in October 2025 and an annual coupon of 0%,
- €500 million bonds with a maturity in October 2028 and an annual coupon of 0.5% and
- €500 million bonds with a maturity in October 2031 and an annual coupon of 0.875%.
The proceeds will be used for general corporate purposes, including refinancing of existing financial liabilities.
The bonds were drawn under the Fresenius Debt Issuance Program (DIP) and issued by Fresenius Finance Ireland plc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA. The company has applied to the Luxembourg Stock Exchange to admit the bonds to trading on its regulated market.
The envisaged settlement date is April 1, 2021.
This announcement does not contain or constitute an offer of, or the solicitation of an offer to buy or subscribe for, securities to any person in Australia, Canada, Japan, or the United States of America (the “United States”) or in any jurisdiction to whom or in which such offer or solicitation is unlawful. The securities referred to herein may not be offered or sold in the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, U.S. persons, absent registration under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) except pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Subject to certain exceptions, the securities referred to herein may not be offered or sold in Australia, Canada or Japan or to, or for the account or benefit of, any national, resident or citizen of Australia, Canada or Japan. The offer and sale of the securities referred to herein has not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or under the applicable securities laws of Australia, Canada or Japan. There will be no public offer of the securities in the United States.
This announcement is a general information and not a prospectus. Investors should not purchase or subscribe for any securities referred to in this announcement except on the basis of information in the prospectus to be issued by the company in connection with the offering of such securities. Copies of the prospectus will, following publication, be available free of charge from Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA at Else-Kröner Strasse 1, 61352 Bad Homburg, Germany.
This announcement has been prepared on the basis that any offer of securities in any Member State of the European Economic Area (EEA) will be made pursuant to the prospectus prepared by Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA, Fresenius Finance Ireland Public Limited Company and Fresenius Finance Ireland II Public Limited Company in combination with the relevant final terms relating to such securities or pursuant to an exemption under Regulation (EU) 1129/2017 (the Prospectus Regulation) from the requirement to publish a prospectus for offers of securities. Neither Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA, Fresenius Finance Ireland Public Limited Company nor Fresenius Finance Ireland II Public Limited Company have authorized, nor do they authorize, the making of any offer of securities in circumstances in which an obligation arises for Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA, Fresenius Finance Ireland Public Limited Company and Fresenius Finance Ireland II Public Limited Company or any other person to publish or supplement a prospectus for such offer.
This announcement is directed at and/or for distribution in the United Kingdom only to (i) persons who have professional experience in matters relating to investments falling within article 19(5) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005 (the “Order”) or (ii) high net worth entities falling within article 49(2)(a) to (d) of the Order (all such persons are referred to herein as “relevant persons”). This announcement is directed only at relevant persons. Any person who is not a relevant person should not act or rely on this announcement or any of its contents. Any investment or investment activity to which this announcement relates is available only to relevant persons and will be engaged in only with relevant persons.
This announcement contains forward-looking statements that are subject to various risks and uncertainties. Future results could differ materially from those described in these forward-looking statements due to certain factors, e.g. changes in business, economic and competitive conditions, regulatory reforms, results of clinical trials, foreign exchange rate fluctuations, uncertainties in litigation or investigative proceedings, and the availability of financing. Neither Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA, Fresenius Finance Ireland Public Limited Company nor Fresenius Finance Ireland II Public Limited Company undertake any responsibility to update the forward-looking statements in this announcement.
The information and documents contained on the following pages of this website are for information purposes only. These materials do neither constitute an offer nor an invitation to subscribe to or to purchase securities, nor any investment advice or service, and are not meant to serve as a basis for any kind of obligation, contractual or otherwise. Securities may not be offered or sold in the United States of America (“US”) absent registration under the US Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or an exemption from registration. The securities described on the following pages are not offered for sale in the US or to "US persons" (as defined in Regulation S under the US Securities Act of 1933, as amended).
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Fresenius today successfully placed bonds with an aggregate volume of €1.5 billion across three tranches:
- €500 million bonds with a maturity in October 2025 and an annual coupon of 0%,
- €500 million bonds with a maturity in October 2028 and an annual coupon of 0.5% and
- €500 million bonds with a maturity in October 2031 and an annual coupon of 0.875%.
The proceeds will be used for general corporate purposes, including refinancing of existing financial liabilities.
The bonds were drawn under the Fresenius Debt Issuance Program (DIP) and issued by Fresenius Finance Ireland plc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA. The company has applied to the Luxembourg Stock Exchange to admit the bonds to trading on its regulated market.
The envisaged settlement date is April 1, 2021.
This announcement does not contain or constitute an offer of, or the solicitation of an offer to buy or subscribe for, securities to any person in Australia, Canada, Japan, or the United States of America (the “United States”) or in any jurisdiction to whom or in which such offer or solicitation is unlawful. The securities referred to herein may not be offered or sold in the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, U.S. persons, absent registration under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) except pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Subject to certain exceptions, the securities referred to herein may not be offered or sold in Australia, Canada or Japan or to, or for the account or benefit of, any national, resident or citizen of Australia, Canada or Japan. The offer and sale of the securities referred to herein has not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or under the applicable securities laws of Australia, Canada or Japan. There will be no public offer of the securities in the United States.
This announcement is a general information and not a prospectus. Investors should not purchase or subscribe for any securities referred to in this announcement except on the basis of information in the prospectus to be issued by the company in connection with the offering of such securities. Copies of the prospectus will, following publication, be available free of charge from Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA at Else-Kröner Strasse 1, 61352 Bad Homburg, Germany.
This announcement has been prepared on the basis that any offer of securities in any Member State of the European Economic Area (EEA) will be made pursuant to the prospectus prepared by Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA, Fresenius Finance Ireland Public Limited Company and Fresenius Finance Ireland II Public Limited Company in combination with the relevant final terms relating to such securities or pursuant to an exemption under Regulation (EU) 1129/2017 (the Prospectus Regulation) from the requirement to publish a prospectus for offers of securities. Neither Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA, Fresenius Finance Ireland Public Limited Company nor Fresenius Finance Ireland II Public Limited Company have authorized, nor do they authorize, the making of any offer of securities in circumstances in which an obligation arises for Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA, Fresenius Finance Ireland Public Limited Company and Fresenius Finance Ireland II Public Limited Company or any other person to publish or supplement a prospectus for such offer.
This announcement is directed at and/or for distribution in the United Kingdom only to (i) persons who have professional experience in matters relating to investments falling within article 19(5) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005 (the “Order”) or (ii) high net worth entities falling within article 49(2)(a) to (d) of the Order (all such persons are referred to herein as “relevant persons”). This announcement is directed only at relevant persons. Any person who is not a relevant person should not act or rely on this announcement or any of its contents. Any investment or investment activity to which this announcement relates is available only to relevant persons and will be engaged in only with relevant persons.
This announcement contains forward-looking statements that are subject to various risks and uncertainties. Future results could differ materially from those described in these forward-looking statements due to certain factors, e.g. changes in business, economic and competitive conditions, regulatory reforms, results of clinical trials, foreign exchange rate fluctuations, uncertainties in litigation or investigative proceedings, and the availability of financing. Neither Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA, Fresenius Finance Ireland Public Limited Company nor Fresenius Finance Ireland II Public Limited Company undertake any responsibility to update the forward-looking statements in this announcement.